John Grisham Quotes

I can't change overnight into a serious literary author. You can't compare apples to oranges. William Faulkner was a great literary genius. I am not.
John Grisham

Change, Great, Serious

I have learned not to read reviews. Period. And I hate reviewers. All of them, or at least all but two or three. Life is much simpler ignoring reviews and the nasty people who write them. Critics should find meaningful work.
John Grisham

Life, Work, Hate

I seriously doubt I would ever have written the first story had I not been a lawyer. I never dreamed of being a writer. I wrote only after witnessing a trial.
John Grisham

Doubt, After, Story

I always do book signings with the same blue pen. That way, if I add a personalised message to a book I've already signed, it'll be in the same colour as my signature.
John Grisham

Book, Same, Message

Nobody wants to read about the honest lawyer down the street who does real estate loans and wills. If you want to sell books, you have to write about the interesting lawyers - the guys who steal all the money and take off. That's the fun stuff.
John Grisham

Money, Fun, Real

One thing you really have to watch as a writer is getting on a soapbox or pulpit about anything. You don't want to alienate readers.
John Grisham

Getting, Writer, Watch

Every morning I wake at 6am or 6.30am, champing at the bit.
John Grisham

Morning, Bit, Wake

I was a lawyer for 10 years - a short time, but it molded me into who I am. My clients were little people fighting big corporations, so it was a natural thing to not only represent the little guy but also to pull for him - it's the American way.
John Grisham

Time, Him, Short

More than 100 people have been sent to death row who were later exonerated because they weren't guilty or fairly tried. Most criminal defendants do not get adequate representation because there are not enough public defenders to represent them. There is a lot that is wrong.
John Grisham

Death, Enough, Wrong

Prisons are fascinating places, especially when the inmates are educated white-collar types.
John Grisham

Educated, Places, Types

When you work at street level you never know who's going to walk through your door.
John Grisham

Work, Through, Door

Wrongful convictions happen every week in every state in this country. And they happen for all the same reasons. Sloppy police work. Eyewitness identification is the most - is the worst type almost. Because it's wrong about half the time. Think about that.
John Grisham

Work, Time, Happen

After I'd been a lawyer for about five or six years, I started playing around with fiction.
John Grisham

After, Around, Playing

And that's the mission of The Innocence Project in New York, is to exonerate people who have been wrongfully convicted, and also work from a policy angle with Congress and state legislatures to prevent future wrongful convictions.
John Grisham

Work, Future, State

I always try to tell a good story, one with a compelling plot that will keep the pages turning. That is my first and primary goal. Sometimes I can tackle an issue-homelessness, tobacco litigation, insurance fraud, the death penalty-and wrap a good story around it.
John Grisham

Good, Death, Goal

I don't want to force my politics on my readers.
John Grisham

Politics, Force, Readers

I earned my first steady paycheck watering rose bushes at a nursery for a dollar an hour.
John Grisham

Rose, Hour, Earned

I give off rather mixed messages about the law. On the one hand, I can honestly say I don't miss working in a law office. On the other hand I do enjoy watching the law and while the profession may have its problems, I have sold zillions of books out of magnifying them.
John Grisham

I grew up in a very small, close-knit, Southern Baptist family, where everything was off-limits. So I couldn't wait to get to college and have some fun. And I did for the first two years. And I regret a lot of it, because my grades were in terrible shape. I never got in serious trouble, except for my grades.
John Grisham

Family, Fun, Everything

I learned that lesson a long time ago. When you write popular fiction you're going to get bashed by critics.
John Grisham

Time, Long, Learned

I was a lawyer for 10 years, and several of my clients had the misfortune, through no fault of my own, of going to prison. I visited them occasionally.
John Grisham

Through, Fault, Lawyer

I'm a Christian, and those beliefs occasionally come out in the books.
John Grisham

Christian, Books, Beliefs

I'm not in favor of the death penalty. But I'm in favor of locking these people away in maximum security units where they can never get out. They can never escape. They can never be paroled. Lock the bad ones away. But you gotta rethink everybody else.
John Grisham

Death, Bad, Away

I'm not itching to sue Amazon or Wal-Mart... they sell a lot of books. But the future is very uncertain with books.
John Grisham

Future, Books, Sell

I've had nine of my books adapted to film, and almost all were enjoyable. I've been very lucky with Hollywood, and look forward to more movies being adapted. But I don't get involved in that process. I know nothing about making movies and I stay away from it and hope for the best.
John Grisham

Best, Hope, Movies

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: February 8, 1955

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